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I have a movie which has several submovies, when a button is clicked a submovie starts, goes through to the end and stops. All of this works fine, the problem is if you click on another button before the first submovie is over, it begins the next one on top of the first. What I need is a simple solution to stop any submovies that might be playing when any button is clicked. You can see what I mean here:
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I am also open to ANY ideas as to how to cut file size. I have already compressed the photos/ect. to the point that they can't be crunched any more(without serious quality loss), and I have only been able to get it as low as 550k. If you know of anyway to cut some huge(or not so huge) corners then it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
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Nice project, I hope you are going to submit it to our new gallery.
Try using variables to hold back the progress of child movies. So that a new child movie cannot start until the previous child movie has finished.
Set a variable to false before the movie. Set it to true after the movie has finished. Dont let the button work unless the variable is true.
Adjust the compression for each picture - some you will be able to compress more than others. Also try color reduction to greyscale gifs for the black and white photos.
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Thanks Rob,
I'll try working it out with variables this evening. Like I've said before I'm still pretty new at this, so I may have to make several attempts to get it right.
As far as the photos are concerned they are all compressed to the MAX currently. The pen and inks are actually 1-bit .GIFs, while ALL the .JPGs are compressed as far below 50% as quality will allow some going as far as 15% quality. I cut the frame rate down to 12 (as opposed to the default setting of 16) and this shaved some off (not a lot but some). I'm guessing it has a lot to do with the shear number of image files involved (nearly 90 separate images, not to mention 3 sound files). I suppose I'm just going to end up with a semi-large file (maybe I'll make an interesting loading movie for it?).
-Jason
BTW, Feel free to link to the file for now, but be aware it will be moving to http://www.artistnation.com/members/lofts/zoranvedek , as soon I am happy with it (probably near the end of the week).
